Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1887-04-28

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a neighbours daughter, died from eating
parsDips which had been poisoned. Mr..
Dougherty found the parsuips inside his
fence, where they had been thrown by
some one presumably with the intention
of poisoning bis cattle.
1t is reported from the valley of st.
Maurice, Quebec, that the disease known
as black fever, aecomp 4nigd by diph-
theria, is making terrible rAvages among
the people. At Monnt Ciribo the family
OF French settler named Antoine Veau-
geois have been almost destroyed, eight
deaths having taken place
M j. Scanlan freight brakeman ON
the Fort Wayne railroad, was arrested in
Pittsburg TUESDAY, on charge of rob-
bling freight trans This is the first ar
rest made outside Of the wholesale ar
restH on the Pan Handle. Others will
follow, however, as il il stated that the
Pennsylvania company has evidence i'm.
plicating number of employees on their
various lines.
The body of white man was found
late Sunday afternoon in the Patapsco
river at Baltimore He vas apparently
30 years old and over six feet high. On
his person was found receipt Tor suit
of clothes from Manamaker, Philadel.
phia. The initials j. w. M. were on his
shit. The man is supposed to be com.
mercial traveller named rrobish.
The first application of electricity as a
motor for running street-oara in 81. IUuis
was made On Sunday on the Washington
avenue line. The test was considered
highly successful, and as soon as thf
necessary machinery and apparatus can
be attached to the cars the entire road
will be run by electricity. The motor
used Is known as the Julien system.
Judge Woodward, in Court al Wilkes.
barre, Monday, when liquor license,
were handed up to him by the clerk an.
nouneed that all applications, which wer,
IN proper form and with good and suffi
Gent bondsmen, would be granted unles,
circumstances had been filed agains
them. There We're T55 applications ii
Luzerne county and only 40 OF them ar,
demonstrated against.
Albert Turner, colored, has been an
rested in Louisville for COMMITTING /,
murderous assault upon Jennie Bowman
servant girl IN house which he was rob
bing last Thursday morning. The cir
was the only person in the house. AM
when she discovered him in one of IN,
rooms she struck him on the head with ,
glass, he beating her with a poker M M
same time. He confessed his Quilt. IN
girl is in critical condition, but ma,
possibly recover.
A dispatch from Monterey, California
says the arrest of E. I. NJ. Simmons. i,
connection with the burning on April Ia
OF the Hotel Del Monte, of which he va
the manager, did not cause surprise. /
has been known for long time that Sim
mons lived far beyond his salary nh
TACT now comes to light that lie was n III
. tauiter IN the east, aud that he was tried
convicted and sentenced to five yeara i
state prison. He served two wears az h;
term and was pardoned by the poyerno,
The general land commissioner ho
ordered the tract in New Mexico knon,
as the Las Vegas Grant, to be resurveved
! ~ Is alleged by the surveyor-general thg
! sne present survey, which embraces nearl
ooo,voo acres of land, is manifestly ind,
Ienhiole, the grant for agricultural mn
poses not amounting to more than I'd M
acres. The town Of Las Vegas ono
the most important in the Terr,torv
i located on the tract.
Y hain began falling Thursday AT Yazo
City, Mississippi, accompanied nv ona ~ !
l the seyerest hailstotms for MANI yeor
S stones fell as large as hens' eggs. Smast
a ing windows and skylights and beatin
{ leaves and young fruit from the trea
v Hailstones fell at Rolling Fork Miss;
slppi, Thursday afternoon, some Of wbjc
measured 81 inches in circumference m
weighed over four ounces. Holes we,
;, knocked in roofs of houses and t we,
5 stripped Of their foliage. ''
: tuesday was observed as Confedaro
Memorial day in Augusta, Ga. the %,
> iederate Survivors, al their animal mos
: ing unanimously adopted the folIowint
~ That we condemn the coeroion n
y pending before the British parliament ,
n an outrage upon the rights and Iibart
Of the Irish people, and no. warranted !
.ne condition of Ireland, and that we a
tend our sympathy and support to Ola
stone and Parneli in their effoyts ~ ~ !
feat it and obtain for Ireland tha bsnst,
OF Home Rule" -' Oeiieii
a rotary rag boiler IN the Iysnh